| "Let paper work like paper and screens like screens." I liked that quote. Having said that, I take the point that skeuomorphs are not exactly destroying people's minds. Another quote I found extremely intresting was this one, from a professional designer's blog "It shows the care and attention paid to the printing of a photographic image, but also shows how the analogue process of printing a photograph shares a lot with the the digital process of adjusting an image in Photoshop." [ my italics ] See the quote in context at the link below http://www.wemadethis.co.uk/blog/2012/01/shaped-by-war/ Basically, are we reaching the point where metaphors that originally made software more accessible (Photoshop like a wet darkroom) actually lose their meaning. My colleagues who teach photography often illustrate aspects of the photographic printing process using Photoshop (reverse metaphor). Does anyone have any academic references on the anthropology of interfaces? |